LIP Summer Internship - Final Workshop

5 Sept 2024, 09:00 → 6 Sept 2024, 18:00 Europe/Lisbon

To connect to the sessions remotely use the Zoom link 

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Thursday, 5 September

09:20 → 09:30 Opening remarks

09:30 → 11:10 I: Neutrinos and Dark Matter

Convener: Valentina Lozza (Lisboa)

09:30 Observing and measuring the first LHC neutrinos (ZOOM)

Speaker: Claudia Puertas

09:56 Measuring the neutron capture cross section of Argon - a feasibility study

Speaker: Carolina Machado

10:09 Energy calibration of SNO+ with scintillator

Speaker: André Rodrigues

10:22 À descoberta da natureza do neutrino: decaimento beta duplo sem neutrinos (ZOOM)

Speaker: Nuno Mandeiro, João Rodrigues

10:35 Detecção Directa de Matéria Escura com a Experiência LUX-ZEPLIN

Speaker: Luís Melo, Nicolás Terra, Rafael Martins, João Sousa

10:53 Higgs Physics at Future Colliders

Speaker: Rafael Amado, João Santos, Maria Marques

11:10 → 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 → 13:10 II: Detectors

Convener: Luís Margato (Coimbra)

11:40 Characterization of state-of-the-art instrumentaion for timing RPCs detectors

Speaker: Afonso Bandeira

11:53 Participação no desenvolvimento de uma nova tecnologia de deteção de neutrões

Speaker: David Mendonça, Ana Santos, Daniel Marmelo, Jose Beleza

12:11 Upgrade of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter High Voltage System (ZOOM)

Speaker: Rodrigo Pereira, Nuno Jorge

12:24 Search for unexpected ATLAS events in fully hadronic events using anomaly detection techniques (ZOOM)

Speaker: Alice Cartridge, Olivia Shuter

13:10 → 14:40 Lunch break

14:40 → 16:00 III: Data analysis

Convener: Raúl Sarmento (Minho)

14:40 Visualization of 3D muography

Speaker: Rafael Cunha, Gabriel Costa, Diogo Ramos

14:58 Muographying the city

Speaker: Carolina Sobral, Henrique Cunha

15:11 Quantum Machine Learning Applied to HEP: A Pragmatic Approach

Speakers: Bruna Salgado, Catarina Felgueiras

15:24 Quantum Machine Learning

Speaker: Gabriel Domingues, Pedro Carvalho

15:37 Anomaly detection as a tool for discovery the unexpected at colliders

Speaker: Daniel Sousa, João Ferreira, Fábio Carneiro

15:50 Anomaly Detection as a Valuable Tool for Uncovering Unexpected Phenomena at Colliders

Speaker: Simão Cardoso

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:45 IV: LHC & SPS

Convener: Helena Santos (Lisboa)

16:30 Experimental Data Analysis at ATLAS-LHC

Speaker: Salvador Torpes

16:43 Development of safety algorithms for the ATLAS-HGTD

Speaker: Joana Rodrigues

16:56 Comparison of Machine Learning algorithms applied to the search for rare processes in the LHC CMS data

Speaker: Duarte Lopes, Tiago Rebelo

17:09 Validation studies of Monte Carlo generators at ATLAS-LHC

Speaker: Lucas Silva

17:22 The combinatorial background of muon pairs in COMPASS

Speaker: Tiago Alexandre

17:35 The hidden charm in the COMPASS and AMBER experiments at CERN

Speaker: Bárbara Pereira

Friday, 6 September

09:30 → 11:00 I: LHC physics & QCD

Convener: Catarina Quintans (Lisboa)

09:30 Investigating the Flavour Anomalies with Machine Learning at LHC

Speaker: Madalena Ferreira, João Silva

09:43 Estudo de processos de produção exclusiva no LHC através de algoritmos de Machine Learning

Speaker: Francisco Baldé, André Gomes

09:56 Studying Higgs production at the LHC and at future colliders

Speaker: Sebastião Fonseca

10:09 Obtaining high-precision predictions for top-pair production at the LHC in perturbative QCD

Speaker: André Alves

10:22 Hyperfine interactions in heavy quarkonia and heavy-light mesons

Speaker: Joana Ferreira, Vasco Valverde

10:35 Deciphering Jet Quenching Effects with Novel Analysis Tools

Speaker: Jay Nesbitt

10:48 Novel probes of the primordial plasma (ZOOM)

Speaker: Rodrigo Ferreira

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:40 II: Cosmic rays

Convener: Bernardo Tomé (Lisboa)

11:35 Portable muon detection system with a scintillator-PMT based setup

Speaker: Pedro Copeto

11:48 Portable cosmic ray telescopes based on RPCs (ZOOM)

Speaker: Cayetano Soneira, Victor Nouvilas

12:01 Variabilidade temporal do fluxo de raios cósmicos

Speaker: Rafael Parente, Guilherme Faias

12:14 Optimization of water Cherenkov detector for a next-generation gamma-ray observatory

Speaker: Nuno Costa

12:27 Identifying relevant reactions for Nuclear Astrophysics

Speaker: Dimitris Tsatsis

12:40 → 14:10 Lunch break

14:10 → 15:40 III: Nuclear Physics

Convener: Daniel Galaviz Redondo (Lisboa)

14:10 Obtaining high-precision predictions for jet production at the LHC in perturbative QCD (ZOOM)

Speaker: Hugo Amaral

14:23 AI for characterization of thin films using RBS (ZOOM)

Speaker: Bernardo Soares

14:36 Elastic scattering off radioactive nuclei at relativistic energies

Speaker: Catarina Santos

14:49 Gamma spectroscopy of radioactive nuclei (ZOOM)

Speaker: Pedro Batista

15:02 Target production

Speaker: Inês Marques

15:15 Developing a GUI for thin film characterization

Speaker: Alexandre Gusmão

15:28 AI for thin film characterization using AEL

Speaker: Bábara Galindo

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 → 17:00 IV: Medical Physics

Convener: Patrícia Gonçalves (Lisboa)

16:10 TOPAS Automator

Speaker: Tomás Tavares

16:23 Biophysical Modeling of the Ionizing Radiation Influence on Cells

Speaker: Francisca Afonso

16:36 Electronics adaptation for scintillation dosimeter

Speaker: David Encarnação

16:49 Radiobiological phantom characterization

Speaker: João Pedro Vaz

17:00 → 17:20 Closing Remarks